Items filtered by date: December 2014

Since you received a PSD file and you want to turn it into a webpage, here is what you do, in a nutshell...

1) Open the PSD document in Photoshop and edit it the way you want.

2) Once you are done, and this is important...use the SPLICE TOOL to break up the PSD document into images...each splice will be a jpg file that you would save.

3) Go to File--Save for Web and you'll see your splices pieced together.

4) Select JPG HIGH for your resolution so that your images don't appear all blocky and pixel-like...

5) Save the PSD file as a .html file (i.e. index.html, whatever.html, etc.)

6) Next, open Dreamweaver, or your favorite HTML editor. Go to File--Open to open the PSD document...

7) Center the document...

8) If you need to add meta tags or keywords for SEO purposes, do so in the document.

Also there are some occompanying videos. Google "How To Create A Squeeze Page From Scratch"...

Flash animation is the standard for Internet video. Videos on YouTube and other websites use SWF (.swf) files, which are the Web-optimized output of Flash (.fla) files. An SWF file in and of itself cannot be edited. It is akin to a Photoshop (.psd) file that has been flattened to a .jpg, .gif or .pdf file made from an Acrobat file. The only guaranteed way to edit an SWF file is to have access to its original Flash file. Third party decompilers can do some of the conversion, but they do not successfully convert all Flash elements as well as Adobe Flash.

This is the project page for developing a Restrict ACL permmisions solution for Webhosting clients that get a Joomla Powered website so they do not have access to features they do not require or do not need.

Articles from Joomla

• Joomla 1.6, 1.7, and 2.5: ACL Concepts Overview
• Joomla ACL: Access Levels
• Customizing the Admin Menu
• Joomla ACL: Configuring back-end ACL
• Implementing Role-Based ACL
• Joomla Magazine Administrator Topics

Other Articles

• Leveraging Joomla’s ACL for Mission Control
• Joomla’s ACL for Mission Control - Part 2

When I go to my Extension Manager Warning section I'm seeing this error:

"The PHP temporary directory is not set. The PHP temporary directory is the directory that PHP uses to store an uploaded file before Joomla! can access this file. Whilst the directory not being set isn't always a problem, if you are having issues with manifest files not being detected or uploaded files not being detected, setting this in your php.ini file might fix the issue."

The solutions were taken from this forum thread

In the configuration.php file there's an attribute called $tmp_path. Set that to the temporary path that Joomla should use.

It's usually a subdirectory of the root called /tmp.

And I'd say that the problem is more likely the write permissions to that directory rather than the directory not existing.

For Example

public $tmp_path = '/usr/local/pem/vhosts/1xxx49/webspace/httpdocs/tmp';

It might also be that this tmp folder is not set in your php.ini file

or

It's actually related to the open_basedir config of the web server. if you have access to the root of your ftp and php is run as FastCGI you can add your custom php.ini to your virtual host which should contain the following information. I'm using parallels so this might be different for plesk.{code}open_basedir = /var/www/vhosts/domain-name/httpdocs:/tmp/{/code}

In the Module Manager, the Ordering column has 'arrows' to change the ordering, but they are shaded out and not active. I *can* change the ordering of the modules if I go inside the module and change the 'Ordering' there. It does then correctly show on the Module Manager page.

If you are not sorted by the Ordering column, then you won't be able to manipulate the ordering from manager view. In Beta 5, the view was changed to hide the arrows and save order disk when not sorted by the ordering column.

You can configure most article options globally but not 'Page headings'. They are all turned on by default for Menu Item. There is not a method of setting this globally, so far.

Read Forum Thread for further information and indepth discussion about Tile, Browser page title and Page heading and the different places they are set.

There is a sneaky trick to avoid all that manual work. Run the following MySQL Statement on your joomla database

It will just do a search and replace on the params field in the j25_menu table. If your menu table has a different name, just replace it.

If you are getting this error, that means your configuration.php has not got the database details.

Just edit that file and enter the correct db details. Thats all.

A surprise with Joomla 2.5.2 , All HTML is filtered out of content items.

Go to Global Config - Text Filters. All filters have been reset to Blacklist. Trying to save a new setting does not work - Blacklist remains. Have tried this on two sites so far on different servers with same results.

I have noticed with IE & FF that if caching is on in Global config that the changes to the text filter are not recognised. But with other settings in Global config settings can be saved with cache on( conservative and progressive).

• With cache off, Alter a setting in Text filer and save ... Success
• Set cache on (conservative)
• Alter a setting in Text filer and save ... No Avail
• Alter settings in other tabs ( like site off line) and save ... Success
• Set cache off
• Ctrl+F5 (clear Browser cache for that page)
• Alter a setting in Text filer and save ... Success

Same with cache Progressive

Tested on Joomla 2.5.3,

Quick Version, turn off Joomla's cache and then the changes will stay. You can then put the cache back on.

If you are getting 404 Page not Found Error on your Joomla Administrator login, then here is the fix.

• Just goto configuration.php file and edit it.
• Just remove the data from live_site variable and save the file.
• Now clear the cache folder and refresh the website and administrator login page.

I am working with Magento but i didn't find a very good way to debug my modules. For example, many time, i got a blank page with no php error and no apache error. For example, in backend, if one grid controller isn't well set, i don't have an error.

How to debug Magento module?

It sounds like you want to enable Developer mode. Add this to your .htaccess file:

SetEnv MAGE_IS_DEVELOPER_MODE "true" 

You may also want to enable display errors in index.php:

 ini_set('display_errors', 1); 

The best way I have found to debug is with X-Debug in a local environment. You can also use log files to help debug in a production environment, if your unable to run X-Debug in the environment.

I've got a more detailed posting here:

http://www.molotovbliss.com/debugging-tips-and-tricks-with-magento-commerce

Consider also install XDebug